Why Were You Born?

What is your destiny? Why do you exist? Is there a reason, a purpose, for human life? These questions have baffled the greatest thinkers and philosophers down through the ages.

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Photo illustration of a shepherd standing in field at dark.
9 minutes
What is your destiny? Why do you exist? Why were you born? Is there a reason, a purpose, for human life?
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A monkey picking at another monkey. A man looking through a microscope.
2 minutes
The spirit in man imparts human intellect to our physical brains. It is what makes people vastly more intelligent than animals.
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Crown of thorns, old nails and old hammer.
3 minutes
Through Jesus Christ's sacrifice, human beings can be reconciled to God, and God's forgiveness of their sin will remove the death penalty.
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A person holding a baby's hand.
20 minutes
That family relationship of becoming children of God the Father is the heart and core of God's incredible plan for humanity!
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A silhouette of a family.
4 minutes
The human family was meant as a lesser model or type of this greater spiritual reality, that God is a family.
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An unborn baby.
7 minutes
Scripture makes clear that God actually begets us spiritually in His own image, with the intention that we ultimately become the same kind of beings...
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Shelves of old books.
5 minutes
While the biblical concept of deification or divinization, exaltation to godhood, is commonly ignored or dismissed in modern Christian teaching, this...
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A water baptism.
15 minutes
Never underestimate the value of your life. You were born to become one of God's divine children. You were born to receive His very nature and...
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A galaxy of stars.
4 minutes
When fully in God's likeness, we will be able to fulfill our awesome responsibility of exercising dominion over, of assisting Him in managing, the...